One other well-known race automobile is being introduced again to life in continuation type, this one a bit additional afield than the Jaguars and Bentleys we have seen of late. England’s CNC Motorsport AWS is constructing three Ford Sierra RS500 racers that campaigned within the British Touring Automobile Championship within the Eighties. CNC has chosen the 1990 model of the automobile as constructed and specced by former BTCC driver Andy Rouse and his firm Andy Rouse Engineering (ARE). Rouse had been topped driver’s champion 4 instances, however he completed second within the championship that yr in his ICS-branded RS500.
Though unknown right here besides because the Merkur XR4ti, the Sierra RS500 so totally dominated BTCC for a couple of quick years that final yr Autosport named the Ford first among the many ten-best-ever BTCC entrants. It is not arduous to see why. Three Sierra RS500s ran in Group A in 1987. The automobile was so good that come 1998, 14 of 15 Group A entries drove the RS500. In 1989 just one Group A staff ran one thing aside from an RS500, and in 1990 the entire Group A discipline was one make of automobile.
The provenance for the builds could not be higher. Rouse helps information the construct of a automobile he drove, the nuts and bolts being fixed by Alan Strachan, who labored for Rouse’s staff within the BTCC days and now runs CNC Motorsport AWS. The primary automobile, anticipated to be accomplished early subsequent yr, will get an unused 909 Ford Sierra Motorsport bodyshell that is been in storage because the automobile’s heyday. The opposite two continuation automobiles will use authentic Sierra bodyshells. Up entrance might be a newly constructed 575-horsepower Cosworth YB engine shifting via a Getrag five-speed guide transmission. All will get Rouse-specific elements like ARE entrance suspension uprights, side-exit exhaust, and ARE metal roll cages, plus all of the interval gauges, a fuel cell. The three will even include an ARE construct plate and an FIA Historic Technical Passport (HTP) to enter traditional occasions. Except requested in any other case, the our bodies are available in white so the shopper can apply the livery of selection.
Pricing begins at £185,000 (about $253,000 U.S.) earlier than spares packages and choices.
